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Area X is now putting its mark on those humans who enter it rather than the other way around. Its mark may or may not be deadly. But it is always transformational.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Glimpses of a future
Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Maybe there was a benevolent, science-loving alien in there.
Kevin Emerson • Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star Book 1)
He would start with the living. He would begin with the child. And as if in response to his resolution, the great web tensed and quivered and he knew. He knew exactly where she was.
Sofia Samatar • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
coveted?”